Man who aided scamming Nigerians held

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday arrested a suspect who aided financial scams of a group of Nigerians.

The group of Nigerians had deceived females in Sri Lanka through Facebook to obtain money and the suspect had helped them create bank accounts.

The suspect is a resident of Magazine Road, Borella.The Nigerians had used a bank account created under the name of the suspect to receive Rs.1 million from a woman. During interrogation, the suspect had revealed that he was given money by the Nigerians to create the bank account. The Nigerians had withdrawn money deposited to this account using the ATM card.